Tag: college football top plays

As we near the end of the 2019 calendar year its a good time to look back at everything that went on in 2019 both personally and for our favorite sports teams.  We’ll be doing that in the coming days here at Fighting Irish Wire over the next few days as we continue to get ready for the Camping World Bowl versus Iowa State on Saturday, December 28.

In the days leading up to the bowl game we will be counting down the top-10 plays of the 2019 Notre Dame football regular season.  They could have happened on offense, defense or special teams but they had to have happened in a game and not in practice so please go easy on us when we fail to have 10 Kyle Hamilton plays on the list.

We will unveil the plays twice a day from now through Friday and feel free to leave comments in our forum if you agree or disagree or are just looking for some general Notre Dame or college football conversation.

I don’t want to keep you waiting any longer so here is the first play on that list:

Previous to 2019 Cole Kmet was a pretty strong rumor and the idea of him was great to Notre Dame fans but the actual output left plenty wondering what he’d do as the main tight end entering the season.

His year couldn’t have gotten off to much worse of a start as he broke his collarbone early in fall camp and missed the first two games of the season.

When he did finally take the field in game-action, well ahead of when most expected him to be ready to play I should add, he didn’t take long to be a dominating force.

That is why our number 10 play of the year for 2019’s regular season is:

Cole Kmet’s go-ahead touchdown at Georgia

Just how we drew it up.

Our first touchdown of the night was a beaut, Cole Kmet.

No. 7 ND 7 – No. 3 UGA 0
📺 CBS #GoIrish #BeatBulldogspic.twitter.com/6wa2xkpOWF

— The Fighting Irish (@FightingIrish) September 22, 2019

Notre Dame was unable to hold on for victory in that contest but Kmet showed he was worth every word of hype that night, finishing with nine receptions for 108 yards and that touchdown on the night.

He would finish the regular season with five more touchdown receptions and a total of 41 catches for 482 yards.

He said previously he’d be returning to school for the baseball season this spring and his senior year of football but until he’s actual playing on the diamond I will be a bit worried about that just because others have caught up with what we told you two months ago – that he’d be under strong consideration to be a first round draft pick.

Stay tuned to FIW throughout the week as we’ll continue to countdown the top 10 plays of the regular season.  Number nine will be out early this evening.

Thanks as always for reading and as always – Go Irish!